infoporn

Stock zyxel firmware collects some statistics... this is not as fancy but still not too bad
install luci-app-statistics
since i already have usb stick mounted i move the logs to that one via
statistics>setup>Output Plugins>rrdtool and set storage directory to your /mnt/xyz

additional loging is available by installing seperate plugins: collectd-mod-*
install collectd-mod-disk
more fancy real-time and logged traffic related stuff can be had with
install luci-app-vnstat
(i also tried bandwidthd but never got any life out of it)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

wpad - caching proxy part 2

proxy autoconfig is a combination of DHCP optons, and a bit of JS in a wpad.dat file. under  network>hostnames  add an entry ' wpad ' pointing to your router's lan-ip then create a /www/wpad.dat file (got mine from here ). and changed the default rule to point to polipo - 10.0.0.1:8123 also changed .local into .lan for lan hosts , and commented some stuff out that didn't seem relevant. function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { // If the hostname matches, send direct. //   if (dnsDomainIs(host, "intranet.domain.com") || //        shExpMatch(host, "(*.abcdomain.com|abcdomain.com)")) //        return "DIRECT"; // If the protocol or URL matches, send direct.     if (url.substring(0, 4)=="ftp:" ||         shExpMatch(url, "http://abcdomain.com/folder/*"))         return "DIRECT"; // If the requested website is hosted within the internal network, send direct. ...
Read more

Traffic accounting

Got this from here: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/traffic-accounting-with-iptables/ All i'm interested in is my monthly bandwidth consumption, not the individual devices, there are plenty of forum threads/tools to do that. But why bring in additional tools when iptables has it all? iptables -N TRAFFIC_ACCT iptables -I FORWARD -j TRAFFIC_ACCT iptables -A TRAFFIC_ACCT and to just get the number: iptables -L TRAFFIC_ACCT -v | sed -n 3p | cut -d' ' -f2 to reset the counters /usr/sbin/iptables -L TRAFFIC_ACCT -Z the cron job to reset at the begining of the month, and a daily telegram msg 1 0 1 * * /usr/sbin/iptables -L TRAFFIC_ACCT -Z  0 8 * * * /usr/bin/curl -s -X POST https://api.telegram.org/<BOTID>/sendMessage -d chat_id=<CHATID> -d text="$(/usr/sbin/iptables -L TRAFFIC_ACCT -v | /bin/sed -n 3p | /usr/bin/cut -d' ' -f3)" >/dev/null 2>&1 (you'll need to opkg install ca-bundle for the https to work)
Read more

QoS with SQM (and something about bufferbloat)

another feature that came with stock zyxel fw is their 'optimized' (the one with the 400mbps nag) QoS packages. As far as i can tell the standard SQM package should come pretty close. install uci-app-sqm a Network>SQM QoS menu item will appear check enable, double check your interface name is really your wan port(eth1), and set your down/up speeds to what you measured with e.g. dslreports . under linklayer adaptation set to Ethernet (for VDSL) with 8 bytes overhead. i reran the test, and it seems my up/down throughput dropped about 10%,  but my bufferbloat report went from D to B.... whatever that means in reality I'll have to find out :)
Read more